The Known World

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for
Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to live their lives as best they can.

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Selected Stories

Returning to the city that inspired his first prize-winning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens.

The New Yorker Festival - Edward P. Jones and Marilynne Robinson

Edward P. Jones's first book, the story collection Lost in the City, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Marilynne Robinson made her literary debut in 1981 with the novel Housekeeping, which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Are you struggling with anxiety or panic attacks? Do you find yourself paralysed by fear? If so, I feel your pain. I've been there myself, but I found the tools and techniques to overcome these awful illnesses. This pack brings together Ed Jones's first two best-selling books, each with a key focus. The content in these two books will help you to understand what anxiety is and why is affects you in the way it does. You'll also learn how panic attacks affect the mind and body and learn powerful techniques to overcome them and regain control of your life!

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

Overcoming Anxiety : How Anxiety Is Killing You and What to Do About It

Anxiety is one of the biggest killers in the modern age. If you've ever experienced anxiety, panic attacks, phobias or any of the other ways anxiety manifests itself, you'll know just how debilitating it can be. I struggled for years with it and lived my life in constant fear. I wouldn't go out, I wouldn't meet new people, I wouldn't grow as a person. Anxiety had stopped me living my life. Until one day I said, "Enough is enough!" and I made a decision to overcome this horrible affliction, no matter what.

Are you struggling with panic attacks or anxiety on an almost daily basis? It can be so hard to live the full life you know you are capable of when you are gripped by constant worry and fear. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to completely eliminate panic attacks in five simple steps to regain control of your life quickly and easily.

Thalia Book Club: All Aunt Hagar's Children - Stories by Edward P. Jones

In 14 sublime stories, Edward P. Jones turns an unflinching eye to the ordinary citizens of Washington, DC: men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones' cornucopia of characters will haunt the reader for years to come.